Evelyn Araluen

Evelyn Araluen is a poet, researcher and co-editor of Overland Literary Journal. Her widely published criticism, fiction and poetry has been awarded the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellowship, and a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund grant. Born and raised on Dharug country, she is a descendant of the Bundjalung Nation. Evelyn's debut collection Dropbear was shortlisted for the 2021 Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection and the 2022 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, and also won the 2022 Stella Prize.

Works By Evelyn Araluen

Reading and Speaking With
Evelyn Araluen on the pursuit of Aboriginal literary sovereignty.
5 Sept. 2023
Snugglepot and Cuddlepie in the Ghost Gum
There’s ghosts in the reserve. There’s a rusted windmill and water tank, old concrete feeding troughs and burnt out cars that crawl with the living – goannas, stray dogs, panthers. Every life I have knows this reserve and the liminal scrub it spil...
10 Feb. 2019

Works Featuring Evelyn Araluen

Staring Back
In Araluen’s work spirits and ghosts speak from beyond, above and below the layers of colonial time to remind us of past in present and present in past intertwined and unresolved.
6 June. 2021

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Evelyn Araluen

Works By Evelyn Araluen

Reading and Speaking With

Snugglepot and Cuddlepie in the Ghost Gum

Works Featuring Evelyn Araluen

Staring Back